SWEETS FOR MY SWEET - AUGUST 2020 THEME
SWEETS FOR MY SWEET
Sugar for my honey........
This month we will be looking at all things sweet....... By which I mean sweets, candy, chocolate, bonbons and confectionery.
I am sure we can all look back to the sweets of our childhood and reminisce. My favourites were:
Yorkshire Mixtures
Parma Violets
Liquorice Allsorts.
How about you? What were your favourites? Gum Drops? Chewing gum? American Hard Gums? Chocolate peanuts and raisons?
Have you noticed all the glorious colours of sweets? I am sure that when I was a child a lot came from sources we would never use today - but there were vibrant pink bubble gums and bright yellow and red rhubarb and custard sweets, Smarties came is a variety of lovely colours. What about the Jazzy and snowy sweets - chocolate buttons with multi coloured decorative balls on them?
If you live in the UK you will be familiar with the idea of a stick of rock from the seaside. This is a hard, boiled sugar candy often with stripes round the outer edge and writing through the centre with name of the seaside resort.
As an adult I have encountered Reeses Pieces with their distinctive yellow, brown and orange shells. Marshmallows are now all pink and white. Milka chocolates with their mauve wrappers and lovely image of the cows on the front first entered my life as a treat from the airport!
What about the wrappers? Cadbury chocolate can easily be recognised by its distinctive purple wrapping. Galaxy chocolates all have that swirl of luxurious chocolate colour on the label.
Well I hope you have plenty of pictures in your mind to get started on some great striped, spotted, lovely coloured squares for August.........
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Permalink Reply by Pam Antink on
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Don't know if anyone has suggested it, but with all this focus on interesting/nostalgic sweets, maybe next year we could have a biscuit and cookie challenge - it would be great to see the designs along side the sources of inspiration!
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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Price on
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That sounds like a really good idea - we have certainly come up with a whole bag full of sweets.......
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Permalink Reply by Patricia Underwood on
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I like to try and make at least one square in the Pattern of the Month. This one can represent a whole gift box of sweet treats.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Chiplen on
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I spy rainbow drops in the box of sweet treats..... your square captures them all :))
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Permalink Reply by Bev Jeffery on
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I am thinking Rainbow Paddlepop (icecream)....and wishing I had one....hahaha.
LOVE this yarn, Patricia. :))
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Permalink Reply by Sharon B on
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A sweet treat for sure, Patricia.
Such a good idea to try to make at least one of the pattern of the month.
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That is lovely - and can you imagine, as a kid, getting all these sweets!
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Permalink Reply by Patricia Valerie Hornby on
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A sweet shop full of Flying Saucers!
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What beautiful colours, Patricia. You've certainly risen to the challenge!
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You’ve captured the colours beautifully Patricia :))
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Sticks of rock, candy floss and barley sugar!
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